Quotes About Progress

There are none so superstitious as the educated, for often they see in their own time - as an article of faith unsubstantiated by experience - the final end of human progress.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

If problems fashion the center of our daily existence, we are being formed by these problems. If

In every day and in every way, we're all that much closer to death.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Anything that takes us out of our comfort zones for a while can act as a reminder that the past we are used to may not be our best future.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Every day is a new day when filled with dawn feeling, a virgin day, until it gets fucked up by human activity and becomes history.

Passion occupies a space that is not vacated until another passion occupies it.

Weather is so nineteenth-century in its effects

He loved seeing his buildings get built. That was the most wonderful thing about being an architect—to see your drawings become real, three-dimensional objects that you could walk around and touch. All architects were impatient to see their buildings completed.

But just as an actor needed a breakout role to become a star, an architect needed a career-making project. And

Passage into new forms, overleaping the bars of time and space, reversal of the laws of inanimate intelligent existence, had been mine to perform and to witness.

It is always easy for those living in the present to feel superior to those who lived in the past.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.